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SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced Sun Infrastructure Solutions -- products, services, and detailed methodologies that provide a proven Network Computing infrastructure on which customers can run their business and lower computing costs. Engineered to reduce the risk of deployment, these solutions have been architected, implemented and managed using the SunTone(SM) best practices in Sun iForce(SM) centers and then pre-tested and managed in live customer environments around the world. The first four Sun Infrastructure Solutions, available today, are Sun[tm] Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Continuity, Sun(TM) Infrastructure Solution for Infinite Mailbox, Sun(TM) Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Consolidation, and Sun(TM) Infrastructure Solution for Network Identity. "It takes a systems company to solve complex systems problems. As a systems vendor, Sun has invested well over $1 billion dollars in developing the know-how to deliver simple and efficient end-to-end solutions that match application delivery needs from the workgroup to the data center," said Robert Youngjohns, executive vice president of Global Sales, Sun Microsystems, Inc., "No vendor is currently better positioned than Sun to deliver this business-critical value to customers. By helping customers gain control over their computing operations, we can reduce deployment times dramatically, saving customers millions in the process. Sun Infrastructure Solutions combine the best practices and successes from Sun's technology and services arms, enabling Sun and its iForce partners to deliver this business-ready infrastructure faster than the competition." New Infrastructure Solutions Sun Infrastructure Solutions incorporate the essential building blocks for Network Computing and deliver them to customers in a production-proven, easy-to-customize and easy-to-deploy manner. Each Sun Infrastructure Solution includes best-practice methodologies and Sun Reference Architectures, with sizing guides that will be made available within this quarter. Sun lifecycle services and support and financing and technology refresh services are also a part of these offerings. -- Sun Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Continuity -- helping to ensure higher availability at greater distances for reduced business loss. A joint effort with Nortel Networks, the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Continuity is a geographically dispersed, near-instantaneous solution that helps keep mission-critical applications running, under any circumstances, at distances up to 200 kilometers apart. The active/active SunPlex(TM) environment, with its foundation in the Sun StorEdge(TM) Open SAN architecture, turns multiple data centers into one virtually always-on data center. -- Sun Infrastructure Solution for Infinite Mailbox -- providing simple, economical and secure email digital archiving. This solution provides a platform-independent, massively scalable, transparent way to control the rising cost of email environments, while complying with regulatory requirements to archive email. -- Sun Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Consolidation -- helping to reduce cost and complexity, while improving service levels and utilization of resources in the data center. This solution offers a proven consolidation methodology as well as products, technologies and services to help customers consolidate to a common architecture of fewer, more powerful and better-utilized systems. This solution can help to create an environment that is less costly, less complex and easier to manage. -- Sun Infrastructure Solution for Network Identity -- delivering the first standards-based network identity solution that helps secure the access, delivery, and management of network identities. Based on the Sun ONE(TM) platform, the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Network Identity provides organizations with the ability to quickly adapt to changing customer and enterprise requirements, and includes support for the Liberty Alliance protocols for Federated Network Identity Management. This solution aids in reducing the growing silos of identity information and provides significant cost reductions through improved productivity and automation of business processes. Sun Infrastructure Solutions include an economical evaluation workshop to help customers assess how solutions add value to their specific situation. These services start at under $10,000 U.S. list price. Sun Infrastructure Solutions will be available through Sun and its iForce partners. For more information about Sun Infrastructure Solutions and the four solutions announced today, please see www.sun.com/infrastructure-solutions.